Actor Nicolas Cage will reportedly star in what producers hope will be a new, improved movie version of the best-selling, end-times thriller Left Behind.

The project is being developed by Cloud Ten Pictures, which released the first film adaptation of the book in 2000, following it with two other installments from the successful series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins—which have sold more than 64 million copies since the first title came out in 1995.

Cloud Ten founder and CEO Paul Lalonde, who was one of the producers of the original, independently made movie that starred Kirk Cameron, is producing the action thriller that will be "in the mold of a classic disaster film" with Michael Walker, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Jay David Williams of Family Screen Partners is executive producing.

I enjoyed the series. But was happier my brother picked them up. It gave an un-churched person a dose of God he wouldn’t normally have gotten. He’s more curious and more believing in God. So, here’s hoping the central message stays. If Liam Neeson can be Asland, maybe Nicholas Cage can pull off Rayford. Can’t see him as Buck, but they’d have to do major rewrites - ah, Hollywood.